Richard Lynch, John Diezemann and James Dowling, The Capable Company: Building the Capabilities that make Strategy Work.(Book Review)

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Richard Lynch, John Diezemann and James Dowling, The Capable Company: Building the Capabilities that make Strategy Work. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. 232 pp. ISBN I-4051-1182-8, 22.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk).

This book, written by three business consultants, is clearly targeted at CEOs and managers. The stated ambition of the authors is to provide managers with a 'systematic way to translate strategy into capabilities and projects'. The underlying premise of the book is that the problems managers face is not one of strategy formulation but rather one of strategy ...

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